This collection contains a 1912 autobiography of Kate Hester Robson, who lived in Atlanta from 1859 until her death in 1914. Robson writes about her moving to Atlanta in 1859 where her family lived in a house on the corner of Marietta and Spring Street. During the Civil War she made a Confederate flag and presented it to General Gordon's first company. Her husband managed the coal mines of Dade County, Georgia, until the approach of Union forces in 1864. She made uniforms for soldiers and worked in a hospital. She writes about her husband investing capital in a plantation in Dougherty County and enslaving African Americans. She writes about moving to Albany in 1864 and moving to Elberton after the Civil War. She writes about moving back to Atlanta in 1867 to a farm in what is presently the Kirkwood area of the city.